More than half the hospital beds in the National Health Service are occupied by the elderly, and by the end of the century the proportion will be even higher. Four Score Years and Then ... is about one geriatric ward that gives its patients the medicine of hope. Ward 14 is a rehabilitation ward for the elderly in a south-west London hospital. It's run on the philosophy that the old and feeble have the right to choose how they want to live, even if it means letting them go home where they'll be at risk. It's the story of Professor Peter Millard , a geriatrician with radical ideas about the old; and some of his patients ... Jessie Beal , who though 98 and chairbound, is determined to live alone; Alice Aird , an 81-year-old widow, who despite her frailty is being sent home; Albert Curnick , 86, who doesn't always know where he is but who knows that home is where he wants to be; and 82-year-old Margaret Parker , who won't see her home again, brave and serene as she fights for her life. Reporter Michael Dean Film cameraman REX MAIDMENT Film recordist RON KEIGHTLEY Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Producer JEANNE LA CHARD